Stony Creek

Well just yesterday we went for a drive up to Stony Creek in Byfield to have a picnic with some friends. I wanted to add a panorama of the Stony Creek crossing to my Yeppoon Photo Panoramas, so I took enough photos of the creek crossing for Photoshop to stich the whole scene together.

Stony Creek is a large camping and picnic area, with the main feature being, of course, the creek that divided those two areas. To cross there is a concrete causeway which is covered by about 10cm of water in normal flow. After heavy rain the picnic area is sometimes cut off because the causeway is too deeply covered.

Stony Creek has many important facilities such as toilets, free gas barbeques, picnic tables, taps, and bushwalks. Because the Stony Creek area is protected, no domestic animals such as dogs or cats are allowed. There is one marked bushwalking track, which winds along beside the creek for kilometres. The main circuit is only about 1km long however.

Hard to say for sure Steve, depends on how much rain we get. The causeway separating the camping and day use areas at Stony Creek can be cut by fast flowing or deep water.

If you’re camping though, the only concern is the initial creek crossing a few hundred metres from Byfield Road. If that becomes too deep to drive through, it effectively cuts of all access. There are other routes to Stony Creek, although they’re just as likely to be inaccessible after heavy or prolonged rain.

You picked a good weekend to go up there – we went up on Saturday (two days ago) and Stony Creek is flowing strongly after all the rain. Ignore any “road closed” signs on the way there, the only damaged section is over the actual causeway bridge which has had a section of concrete ripped up. It’s fine in a 4WD however.

Thanks for sharing the photos. I am planning to vacation in Yeppoon this March and I was googling the internet for any bushwalks there when when I came across this site with pcitures. What a great information I got from here, as they say picture is thousand words. Excellent work.